Top 180 Ann Aguirre Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes I miss the old me.”

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2. “Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.”

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3. “It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.”

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4. “Don’t let them see you weak.”

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5. “Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.”

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6. “If you don’t tell me what’s on your mind, I can’t guess.”

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7. “You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.”

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8. “Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.”

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9. “He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.”

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10. “This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It’s about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.”

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11. “Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”

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12. “I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.”

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13. “Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.”

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14. “Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.”

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15. “I know just how he feels that it’s come to this. Sometimes, love isn’t enough, even when it’s all you have.”

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16. “I never belonged anywhere until I met you.”

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17. “Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.”

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18. “There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn’t always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.”

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19. “But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.”

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20. “I’ll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”

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21. “It’s only a sure defeat when you stop trying.”

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22. “He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.”

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23. “People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.”

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24. “I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.”

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25. “But courage wasn’t an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.”

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26. “People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had.”

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27. “More than most, I know the pain of surviving.”

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28. “My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.”

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29. “Death comes for us all in time. Fear of it shouldn’t keep us from living.”

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30. “How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?”

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31. “They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don’t deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it’s not the same as a proper good-bye.”

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32. “It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.”

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33. “No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that’s good, and sometimes it’s bad; sometimes it’s a matter of indifference, and sometimes it’s heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.”

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34. “He’d said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.”

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35. “In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.”

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36. “He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.”

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37. “You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.”

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38. “Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.”

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39. “We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound – that of glass breaking – until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.”

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40. “Don’t worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn’t matter who you’ve been, who you are, or who you become. I’m with you every step of the way.”

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41. “Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it’s gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.”

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42. “Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.”

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43. “There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.”

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44. “Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.”

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45. “I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is, yet.”

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46. “For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.”

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47. “A divided heart offers a strange sensation.”

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48. “A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.”

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49. “We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.”

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50. “Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.”

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